Senior Bowl counts as football; more Designated Reads

• Actual football content! Sort of! E.J. Manuel earned MVP honors at Saturday's Senior Bowl, scoring the South's first two touchdowns -- a two-yard run and a 20-yard pass to Alabama's Michael Williams -- to give his team a 14-0 first-quarter lead. BYU's Ziggy Ansah shone on defense with seven tackles, 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble. Stepfan Taylor led all rushers with nine carries for 53 yards; Kenjon Barner was the game's top receiver with seven catches for 59 yards.

• And what do recruiters make of the new recruiting regulations? "It's insane. It's bad on both ends," said a recruiting coordinator at a major-conference school. "If it's not regulated where coaches have periods here and there that are designated as breaks, you don't get any time with your family." That and more from Stewart Mandel.

• Realignment tidbits, grudgingly dispensed. Both the Big Ten and Big East are still talking expansion, with varying degrees of seriousness, so let's get ready for another stupid offseason of this claptrap.